Olivia Eileen

My January 2013 book choice is "Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood" by Jamie C. Martin. A mom of 3 young kiddos, Martin also authors an inspirational blog called Steady Mom . I'm not quite finished with the book yet (don't remind me I only have a few days left in January!) But so far, what I've taken away from Martin's book is that proactivity lies at the foundation of intentional and professional motherhood. Martin offers simple and achievable techniques to creating, from my perspective, a proactive home environment. My American Heritage Dictionary (whoa, I just used a book off my bookshelf!) defines the adjective proactive as: "acting in advance to deal with an expected difficulty; anticipatory." After beginning to read this book one of my sub-goals for this year came into a clearer picture. I already want to be more"intentional in my relationships" with my husband, my sisters, my friends, my mom...the l

Recently, I watched Forks Over Knives documentary with my husband. If you want a convincing argument-that's not all about animal humanity-to decrease (or eliminate) your meat & milk protein intake and increase your intake of whole foods and veggies then you need to hop of Netflix and watch this documentary! My "take-a-ways" from this documentary were... The Standard American Diet is just that, SAD Childhood obesity and diabetes is PREVENTABLE (and our fault) A diet of 20% casein (milk protein) TURNS ON CANCER CELLS in our bodies A whole foods plant based diet has been proven to REVERSE DISEASE Cultural case studies showed that a shift away from a plant based diet and toward the Standard American Diet led to an increase in cancers  The biggest cultural case study that struck a chord with me was in the Philippines :: they were seeing the current generation's children diagnosed with liver cancer . The apparent cause? A shift away from their ancestral roots of a pla

 “What day is it?" "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh.” -A.A. Milne I don't really like "new year's resolutions" simply because they are notoriously outlandish, unachievable, and usually cause more remorse instead of relish in achievement ! But if you ask my husband, I do like new year's GOALS. And I like to go over them on New Year's Eve and again on New Year's Day and again during the entire month of January until a detailed set of goals are decided and written down ;)  All of my goals for 2013 seem to have a similar theme that is found in two of my favorite quotations :: “Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering” -Ida Scott Taylor “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools